Privacy Notice

This website and all data collected herein are owned by Lucy for Deputy Leader Limited (a company which is currently being registered at Companies House and is referred to in this document as “we”, “us” or “our”).

We are committed to protecting your privacy, including online, and in the transparent use of any online information you give us in accordance with our legal obligations. This Privacy Policy sets out in detail the purposes for which we process your personal data, who we share it with, and what rights you have in relation to your data.

Personal data means data which relate to an individual who can be identified (i) from the data, or (ii) from the data and other information which is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller, and includes any expression of opinion about the individual and any indication of the intentions of the data controller or any other person in respect of the individual.

In accordance with Data Protection law, we are a Data Controller and accountable for the way we process your data. Protecting your privacy is very important to us and we are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with our legal obligation.

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

Contact details: Hello@lucyfordeputy.co.uk.

What information we collect, use, and why

We may collect data from website subscription forms, petitions and surveys and cookies and IP addresses. We collect or use the following information:

Names and contact details
Addresses
Marketing preferences
IP addresses
Other information you have inputted in our website forms, petitions and surveys,
Records of consent

What do we use your data for?

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR, which you can find here: Data protection principles, definitions, and key terms | ICO.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Legitimate interest - We may also use legitimate interest where we believe the individual may have a reasonable expectation that their data is processed, for instance to inform members and supporters of campaign activities.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website, here: Individual rights - guidance and resources | ICO.

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.
Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.
Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us at Hello@lucyfordeputy.co.uk.

Where we get personal information from

Directly from you.

How long we keep information

Your data will be kept for 12 months. Where you have donated to the campaign, the related data may be held for a period of 6 years to ensure that we can comply with our legal obligations.

Who we share information with

From time to time we may need to share some of your data with a third party processor (such as technology providers, website hosts, online systems). Where we do so we will have a data processing agreement with the third party, and where they are located outside of the United Kingdom we will ensure that they provide rough security and privacy to enable us to meet our legal obligations to you.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Last updated: 13 September, 2025

Schedule 5 – Privacy Notice for the Labour Party Deputy Leadership Election 2025

Introduction

We are the Labour Party a century old political organisation, borne out of the trade union movement and built on equality, social justice and compassion. We are committed to placing the rights of individuals at the centre of how we collect, hold and use personal data.

The Labour Party and the validly nominated candidates (“we”, “us”, “our”) for the Labour Party Deputy Leadership Election 2025 (“Election”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal data used in this Election. Together we are the data Controller.

The Labour Party is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for data protection purposes (registration number Z5487928). All uses of personal data within this Election is in accordance with the rules of the UK Data Protection Regulation, the Data Use and Access Act 2025, and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

Please read this privacy notice carefully as it provides important information about how we handle your personal information and your rights.

If you have any questions about any aspect of any of this privacy notice you can contact us by emailing us at dataprotection@labour.org.uk quoting “Deputy Leadership Election 2025”.

Personal data used and accessed in this Election

We shall be using the data of several types of individual (Data Subject) and have been collected by the organisation or party in which you are a member at the point of joining as a member. Please read the section below that is relevant to you:

1. Political Officers of Affiliated Organisations (Trade Unions and Socialist Societies)

Contact name; Email Address; Name of Trade Union or Socialist Society

2. Those Eligible to Vote in this Election (Labour Party Members and Eligible Individuals within Affiliated Organisations)

First name; Middle name; Family name; Date of Birth; Postal Address; Postcode; Mobile number; Email address; Union or Socialist Society Reference; Voting Eligibility status; Whether voting for the candidate or not.

3. Candidate Only: Election Campaign Doners

This will follow the same rules and criteria as set out in the Labour Party Doners Privacy Notice: https://labour.org.uk/privacy/privacy-notices/donations-privacy notice/

4. Candidate Only: Election Campaign Supporters

This will follow the same rules and criteria as set out in the Labour Party Supporters Privacy Notice: https://labour.org.uk/privacy/privacy-notices/labour-party supporters/

The Candidate will act as an independent data controller for the personal data related to Donors and Supporters. This data will not be managed or shared with the Labour Party unless there is a legal obligation to do so. The data of eligible voters and political officers is managed by both organisations as joint data controllers (only for the uses within this Election).

Purposes for which we use personal data and the legal basis

When conducting the research study, we may use your personal data for the following purposes and on the following lawful bases. The table below is relevant to all data subjects involved in the research study:

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